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@therealdkgray.bsky.social

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Economist. Former Utilities Consumer Advocate. Art and ideas creator and promoter. Friend to the planet and its inhabitants. Greatly appreciate you reposting.

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · Nov 28

The most radical thing to be right now is kind.

The most powerful position to occupy is high ground.

The most powerful weapons against tyranny are laughter and resolve.

Together, we can all achieve more.

Let us build a better world for we many, not just the vainglorious few.

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7h

Can confirm.

They won’t have money for drugs either.

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Rasta @rastasack.bsky.social · 16h

Buy Guitars, not Guns!

#Guns #GIfts #Guitars

Dear Dads,
Don't buy him a weapon. Buy him a guitar. He won't hurt anybody with it, and he might actually get a girlfriend

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7h

The oilmen will be tried and executed in the future wastelands.

DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7h

Every shitty war movie and jarhead podcast will be in the training data.

What could go wrong?

a man in a black hat is standing in front of a helicopter with an american flag on it .

ALT: a man in a black hat is standing in front of a helicopter with an american flag on it .

media.tenor.com

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Kelly @brnidgirl.bsky.social · 9h

We are all behind the American people who continue to call out and condemn radical right criminals.

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11h

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 1d

Must read here for all Albertans via @ximenaka.bsky.social.
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

thetyee.ca

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7h

Land of the free
Home of the brave…

What a shithole.

It could be paradise.

Elderest Millennial @ebwell.bsky.social · 9h

This fascist power display is coming to a neighborhood near you. The whole point is to normalize this. Eventually this will come to small town America.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7h

Russian heaven?

Where all the windows are permanently sealed?

DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7h

Who does that guy think he is?

Brian Mulroney?

DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7h

Do Canadians even do anything?

Yeah, son, we do.

Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 9h

On this day in 1957, Lester B. Pearson received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in resolving the Suez Crisis through the creation of the United Nations Emergency Force. The selection committee stated Pearson had "saved the world".

A black-and-white photo of a man and a woman standing together. The woman is wearing a fur stole and a feathered hat, holding a handkerchief. The man is dressed in a suit and tie, holding an open box with a medal inside. There is an additional box on the table in front of them.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

The truth of autism will continue to be found in science, not myth www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

"Accusations of inaction dismiss the relentless work of researchers around the world and, in partnership with autistic people and their families, the search for answers."

Opinion: The truth of autism will continue to be found in science, not myth

Canadian research needs to lead the world forward

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Canadian Peter Howitt on his Nobel Prize in Economics!

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 1d

Solar power in the great western desert would be the cheapest power on earth.

Foot meet .44

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

it’s just remarkable how much of what’s wrong with this country can be put at the feet of overachieving dorks motivated by bottomless self-regard and ressentiment.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 3d

Successful people always acknowledge the role of luck.

DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 4d

I do wonder if Republicans are united in destroying America for all time, to recreate South Africa.

Seems like it.

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 4d

Substitute Alberta for America.

Chris @cyber-chris.bsky.social · 4d

What took months to destroy will take decades to rebuild...or more likely never be rebuilt because Americans are too stupid and fickle to leave the right kind of people in power. So we'll go back and forth every 4-8 years letting some conservative fucktard break everything again.

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Karen Klassen @kklassen.bsky.social · 4d

Teachers on strike in Alberta, UCP digging in for a long fight open.substack.com/pub/davebert... "...some of the private institutions receiving generous public funding include elite schools tailored to Calgary’s wealthiest families and charge more than $20,000 in annual tuition."

Teachers on strike in Alberta!

Breaking the ATA is in the official UCP policy book

open.substack.com

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 7d

It’s funny how wearing masks during a pandemic contagion was too much, but wearing them to beat up brown people is just fine.

I thought they interfered with heavy breathing.

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 8d

We don’t value journalists as much as personalities.

This is so very stupid.

Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss is head of CBS News.
Olivia Nuzzi is an editor at Vanity Fair.
Joe Rogan is paid hundreds of millions.

And every journalist knows dozens of decent, talented people who are underpaid, laid off, prematurely retired, or out of work.

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 9d

Very successful day for #ForeverCanadian at the Smokey Lake Pumpkin Festival 🎃

Thank you Smokey Lake for all your signatures!!!

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 12d

Commercial social media is a poorly regulated pathway to the apocalypse.

It also has a bad side.

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 13d

Also Brexit was a stupid idea.

Not as stupid as having this pipsqueak as
Leader, though.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15d

I love that there are millions of Americans over the age of forty who can be manipulated like 3rd graders in 1996 by deploying “that’s gay” in euphemism and that’s enough to make them think something is bad bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 16d

We were the first to boycott Apartheid South Africa.

So yeah, same deal.